El Jaleo Pencil Sharpener

Images like El Jaleo lean toward the daring, risky, unconventional, dramatic, off-center, and odd. Because nomadic groups were believed to ignore ethical principles and exalted superstition over orthodox religion, they endured oppression in numerous countries during the nineteenth century, but artists and bohemians idealized them as free spirits. 

During his travels in Spain in 1879, Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Romani music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris, he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader definition of jaleo, which includes ruckus or hubbub. 
 
This travel-size pencil sharpener features the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent and sharpens both standard and larger pencils. 

2.24 x 1.81 x 1.81 inches